After 53 people have perished in Karnataka due to the H1N1 virus, second only to Maharashtra’s 72, the bureaucrats manning the gates of health in the State have zeroed in on the pollutants: the IT wallahs.

“IT people travel a lot and during the initial days they hardly took any precaution. Even companies like Infosys had failed to do their duty in helping people take precaution against the disease. They have become conscious, but initially none of these IT guys, even Infosys, took the required precaution. I have information that now they have started conducting regular health checkups of employees.”